Renato Bialetti, coffee pot entrepreneur

You might not know the name, but you've almost definitely seen the design.

Renato Bialetti helped popularize the eight-sided Moka pot his father invented in 1933 but which initially flopped.

Bialetti recently died at 93 years old, with a final wish that his ashes be buried in the same pot he helped revive.

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Walter Morrison, Frisbee inventor

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Why mourn your father's death when you could just toss him around post-mortem?

When Walter Morrison died in 2010, his family cremated him and turned him into the very toy Morrison invented in 1955, then under the name Pluto Platter.

It would later become one of the most successful toys of all-time under the new name adopted by Wham-O: the Frisbee.

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Fred Baur, Pringles can innovator

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Fred Baur didn't invent the Pringle, but he did have the ingenious idea to stack them.

Baur came up with the idea while working at Procter & Gamble in the 1960s. He was an organic chemist and food storage technician (awesome title), and he loved his insight into chip stacking so much that he requested his ashes be stored inside a Pringles can when it came time.

In 2008, when Baur died at the age of 89, his family split the remains between a traditional urn and the late inventor's greatest creation.

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Tupac, hip-hop legend

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When Tupac Shakur died in 1996, members of his old group, The Outlawz, sent the rap legend off in the most appropriate way they knew how.

They rolled up Pac's ashes and smoked them.

"If you listen to 'Black Jesus,'" one of the Outlawz members said in 2011, "'Last wishes ... smoke my ashes.' That was a request that he had. Now, how serious he was about it? We took it serious."

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Edward Headrick, Frisbee golf inventor

After Walter Morrison's invention landed in Wham-O's lap, it got passed onto Edward Headrick. The designer added a few new features to the disc to make it more aerodynamic and had the clever idea to make a sport out of the disc.

Enter: Frisbee golf.

When Headrick died in 2002, his family and friends used the ashes to create a limited number of Headrick-original discs.

"When we die, we don't go to purgatory," Headrick said shortly before his passing. "We just land up on the roof and lay there."

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Mark Gruenwald, veteran Marvel comic book editor

Having overseen huge projects like the "Captain America" series and "The Avengers," Gruenwald was obsessed with comics. So he let it be known to family and friends that upon his death he wanted to be turned into one.

Though he met an untimely death at just 42 years old, in 1997, his wishes were honored.

His ashes were used as the ink in an issue of "Squadron Supreme," a reprint of a 1985 comic he wrote, the LA Times reported.

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James Booth, vintage shotgun expert

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Fallen members of the military are given a three-volley salute — a series of memorial shots fired into the sky. James Booth got something a little more personal.

A vintage gun specialist for Sotheby's, in London, Booth actually never asked that his ashes be loaded into a shotgun and fired. But, in 2004, that's what his wife Joanna arranged. Her husband would have enjoyed the idea, she told The Telegraph.

"It was a perfectly normal scattering of ashes, a few words and prayers," said the minister who blessed the cartridges. "After all, he had a lifelong interest in ballistics."